Thought Machine
thoughtmachine.net
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Financial Software & Embedded Finance
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Overview
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Jobs
Financials
Funding and backers
Latest round
Venture round
May 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
36
+21 posted in 30 days
Backers
8
Airstreet, Backed VC
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
53/100
hiring for its size, a new city, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 27
Raised a round Venture round
Nov 6, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
Jul 18, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
Dec 13, 2022
Raised a round Venture round
May 17, 2022
Raised a round Venture round
Aug 10, 2020
Raised a round Venture round
May 11, 2020
Raised a round Venture round
Nov 7, 2018
Raised a round Venture round
Mar 27, 2018
Raised a round Venture round
Dec 22, 2017
Raised a round Venture round
2014
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2026 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Nov 2025 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Jul 2025 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Dec 2022 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | May 2022 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Aug 2020 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | May 2020 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Nov 2018 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Mar 2018 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Dec 2017 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Thought Machine Group Limited | its site |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Airstreet 
Backed VC 
Cambridge Angels 
IQ Capital 
Molten Ventures 
Nyca Partners 
Playfair Capital 
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How Thought Machine hires
Truth index
A 90/100
Median time to fill
97 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
20%
Reposted roles
0%
Thought Machine scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 20% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 97 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Visa sponsorship
- United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 3 · green card filings: 1
- United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker)
Overview
Thought Machine is a financial technology company that builds Vault Core, a cloud-native core banking platform, and Vault Payments, which banks use to replace legacy mainframe systems. Founded in 2014 by former Google engineer Paul Taylor, it works with retail and commercial banks in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas and runs offices in London, Lisbon, Singapore, New York and Sydney. The company is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Thought Machine over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
53
Postings analysed
53
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
Python92%
Go55%
SQL17%
Java15%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry15%
React.js11%
Databases
PostgreSQL32%
DuckDB15%
Amazon Aurora8%
CockroachDB8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS87%
Kubernetes77%
GCP70%
Apache Kafka34%
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Full Thought Machine tech stack
53 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$112k
Typical range
$84k – $250k
Open positions
15
10
Jobs
Middle
10%
Senior
70%
Staff
10%
Architect
10%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $84k | $84k |
| Senior | 7 | $112k | $106k – $134k |
| Staff | 1 | $134k | $134k |
| Architect | 1 | $250k | $250k |
Highest paying role
Client Success Director
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Thought Machine
By role, level and city, against the market · 15 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
36
11 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
87 days
faster than 16% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
28% ▲
DevOps
17% ▲
Security
11% ▲
Leadership
11% ▲
Solutions
11% ▲
Customer Success
8%
Actively hiring for Backend (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Bangkok
Oct 2026
Added OWASP SAMM to stack
Sep 2026
Added OWASP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Vault to stack
Sep 2026
Added Ubuntu to stack
Sep 2026
Added Istio to stack
Sep 2026
Added HashiCorp Vault to stack
Sep 2026
Added Debian to stack
Sep 2026
Added CockroachDB to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon EKS to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
4
Busiest office
London
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London
United Kingdom
HQ
Start building the future of banking
15 open roles 19 posted in 90 days 47% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend, Leadership, DevOps
7 Herbrand Street London, WC1N 1EX United Kingdom
Lisbon
Portugal
Engineering / R&D
13 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 85% engineering 10-50 est. staff $104k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Security, DevOps
Singapore
Singapore
Engineering / R&D
Singapore
5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Customer Success, Solutions, Support
9 Raffles Place, Republic Plaza Tower 1 Level 7 - Office, #702, 703, 705 & 706, Singapore 048619
New York
United States
Engineering / R&D
New York
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $235k Avg Salary
hires for Customer Success, Solutions
1230 6th Ave, New York, NY 10020, United States
Earlier presence
Miami, United States
Jobs
≈ $120k – $260k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • London
Python
GCP
AWS
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
OWASP SAMM
OWASP
Apply
Apply
$140k – $220k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • New York
Python
Java
PostgreSQL
CockroachDB
Apache Kafka
Amazon Aurora
DevOps
Terraform
Puppet
Ansible
GCP
OpenShift
Istio
Chef
Debian
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Ubuntu
Grafana
Configuration Management
Amazon EKS
Linux
Unix
Cybersecurity
HashiCorp Vault
Cryptography
Vault
Apply
$84k – $106k per year • In office • Full-Time • Lisbon
Python
Java
GCP
AWS
Docker
Cybersecurity
Burp Suite
ISO 27001
OWASP Top 10
PCI DSS
Threat Modeling
Apply
$62k – $84k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Lisbon
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
AWS
Kubernetes
Design
Figma
Apply
$84k – $112k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Lisbon
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
AWS
Kubernetes
Design
Figma
Apply
Apply
$62k – $84k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Lisbon
Python
Go
SQL
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
$84k – $112k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • Lisbon
Python
Go
PostgreSQL
DevOps
gRPC
GCP
AWS
Kubernetes
Incident Management
Apply
≈ $112k – $216k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • London
Python
Go
Terraform
Puppet
Ansible
GCP
Jaeger
Chef
Prometheus
AWS
Kubernetes
Configuration Management
Apply
Hybrid • Full-Time • Singapore
Python
Go
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Linux
Unix
Apply
$62k – $84k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Lisbon
Python
Go
PostgreSQL
DuckDB
Apache Kafka
DevOps
GCP
GitHub Actions
OpenTelemetry
CircleCI
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
GitLab
Apply
Financials
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
10
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2018 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2018 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2017 | — | Details |